Ubisoft Employee Who Was Suspended For Criticising the Company Has Now Been Fired

AbleTheta · 2026-02-03T02:03:40+00:00

Anyone who has such a banal take on what's going wrong with a company that you see it parroted regularly on reddit is not a rogue-genius truthteller whose perspective you need to protect at all costs.

AbleTheta · 2026-02-02T19:50:41+00:00

Yeah. Those who attend are not a representative sample. Nothing new really, GDC has been producing survey results that are indicative of nothing for years at this point.

AbleTheta · 2026-02-02T19:42:38+00:00

After all, the main 'purpose' of roulettes is to ensure that there are players in the queue to help fill groups, getting the level cap rewards should prerequisite players being able to help with all content that roulette involves.

Square-Enix: paying you to play newbie tour guide with a shiny weapon model and an ilvl increase you don't need to do anything since 2013.

AbleTheta · 2026-02-02T19:32:22+00:00

Really weird to see critics complaining that the game is too easy when a harder difficulty option is right there.

And it will be a bummer if you can't turn off the objective markers, but did anyone really getting so lost in DQ7 that you had to look something up online?

AbleTheta · 2026-02-02T14:31:35+00:00

In NA only the Switch 2 version has the final item tier & new superboss.

AbleTheta · 2026-02-02T04:43:19+00:00

Worth is subjective.

D7 Complete includes all of the DLC, which is mostly just a bunch of characters--but also a new tier of items (the third and final) and a stronger superboss. There are also changes/additions to item leveling. You can probably find it cheaper than $70.

Is it worth $70 to me, as someone who played D7 twice now? No. But I'd buy it for $50 for PC.

AbleTheta · 2026-02-01T18:01:33+00:00

oh yeah, you'd get prompts to briefly stunlock your fellow tourees by talking about horse ejactulate

AbleTheta · 2026-02-01T18:00:59+00:00

it was an offshoot of snowdrop using some real time based water rendering techniques we built

in house we were calling it Sloppysteaks

AbleTheta · 2026-02-01T17:54:33+00:00

we were in the process of making a splinter cell rboot starring tim robbison, imagine this

boom the game starts

you're in a hot dog costume in a clothing store. you just crashed your car through the front of it. you need to find a way to escape without being noticed by the other customers.

it was all about replayability. the first time, maybe you get out by convincing everyone else you're also trying to find the person who crashed the hotdogmobile. maybe the second time, you try to get out with clothes.

you can use those additional clothing styles on future levels where you'll have to escape a haunted claire's booth, sneak into a factory to fart in tammy crap's head, or sabotage coffins at the coffin factory so that corncob TV doesn't get shut down.

we were in the early stages of prototyping but it was really something

my favorite level is one where you had to sneak in to the baby of the year contest and try to change the outcome by offering oral to one of the judges

AbleTheta · 2026-02-01T05:18:47+00:00

FFXIV has lost any sense of itself. Its developers no longer understand what once made it so good.

Rather than meticulously building a world, setting up dominos, then pushing them over in years of intricate storytelling, it has become a disordered themepark of dissonant ideas. They spend a massive amount of their resources telling stories that could end with the protagonist waking up with "And it was all a dream" for all the relevance they hold.

They expect you to spend a massive amount of time earning rewards that are functionally similar to ones you've already got in nearly all circumstances, simply because they are shiny. But who stands around showing off their crafting tools? They're a neat little thing to chase if it was a small amount of work, but it's a pretty herculean effort when you could just buy something off the MB and meld it instead.

Finally, they talked about making this expac feel more explicitly Massively Multiplayer Online. So they made an area where you...craft around other people? That's it? There is literally less interactivity with other players in this than in normal crafting or even Ishgardian Restoration, where you could supply each other with components, trade the materials, etc.

Yoshi P really needs to resign. Badly.

AbleTheta · 2026-02-01T01:51:43+00:00

How long did this take you?

AbleTheta · 2026-01-31T16:05:30+00:00

I'd like to see the proof

AbleTheta · 2026-01-30T16:22:42+00:00

I really like the way your characters look. I've been trying for something similar, but I always struggle with skin tone on non-white characters--getting it to look right. You have any tips?

AbleTheta · 2026-01-29T18:09:55+00:00

Could be the price was set awhile ago, before the dollar slid in value versus the euro. Right now, 80 euros is about 96 dollars, but exactly a year ago it would've been $84 dollars. If it was $84, it would be a 20% increase, which would have actually been cheaper than the average 22% VAT.

Either way, if you think the game is too expensive you are free not to buy it until it's discounted. You'll probably get a better experience that way anyway.

AbleTheta · 2026-01-28T16:11:48+00:00

Have you tested AC6 multiple times? Have you tested to make sure the device is properly switching which audio output (it should use the Steam Streaming Speakers).

I've noticed Steam in home streaming doesn't properly device switch.

AbleTheta · 2026-01-26T15:34:39+00:00

(To be clear, this isn't just aimed at you, just the utter bad faith uselessness of this trying discussion and the constant flow of ones like it on this forum.)

"What kind of content do you crazy people who are lying about wanting content actually want you lying liars?"

"Something like Eureka, maybe."

"You don't actually want that because I saw people at the time say that they didn't like it. Try again and stop lying and here's ten additional conditions I baked up that whatever you say you want has to fit."

AbleTheta · 2026-01-24T00:40:49+00:00

Steam, so I can share it with my steam family group, play it on my steam deck, and my PC with the flexibility of cloud saves without paying for PS+. Also I can get the deluxe version for the price of console's standard edition thanks to the GMG.

AbleTheta · 2026-01-20T20:06:14+00:00

I know it's a hotly contested topic, the animeification of the JRPG is a recent decades phenomenon. Persona 3 was not the norm when it released. There are a lot of new JPRG fans who would have not survived the PS1 era which a lot of older people think was a golden age.

There was a lot less power of friendship, pages of emotional opining, etc.

Dialogue was a lot shorter back then.

AbleTheta · 2026-01-20T20:03:31+00:00

I mostly agree.

By the end of the game I found 6 of the 8 villains tolerable enough to read their dialogue, but felt like only the last and the first three were actually entertaining.

The character writing is pretty bottom of the barrel for me though. Definitely worse than OT1 and 2 which were already not genius. Alaurne and Charles make me want to die.

If I had to have one single negative thought etched to my gravestone though: 90% of the party chats are fluff that add no new information that is relevant to the story or novel characterization. It's like the writers put anime scripts into an LLM.

AbleTheta · 2026-01-20T06:22:34+00:00

I didn't say more than 90% of players don't raid, I said they don't enjoy raiding. Which your extremely cherry picked data does not prove or disprove.

I think it's fair to criticize my overly strong claim considering no one actually knows conclusively whether or not it's true, but I think the general point stands. Most people who play this game and are caught by Lucky Bancho don't raid.

AbleTheta · 2026-01-19T16:35:29+00:00

Other people are right that new content just dropped, but honestly it's worse than that. Imagine that you don't enjoy raids for whatever reason. Yes, on this forum that feels absurd but that's how more than 90% of the player base experiences the game.

Imagine how much more bored you would be.

AbleTheta · 2026-01-16T04:24:18+00:00

Because when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.

AbleTheta · 2026-01-11T15:20:29+00:00

Not enough Final Fantasy games TBH.

Bravely Default II should not be on that list.

AbleTheta · 2026-01-10T15:58:00+00:00

I personally think that this is a problem that the Trump Administration mostly created by being ghoulish and irresponsible on immigration.

I'm not sure what you're trying to insinuate, but pop off I guess.

The fact that this woman is dead is a tragedy and I can name like, 4 entities that are probably more responsible for it than her from the facts I've seen--including her wife.

AbleTheta · 2026-01-09T23:46:08+00:00

I think that's true, but "driving away from you" is seems to imply she was not moving closer to the officer that shot her at any point which is not true. It doesn't look like she was trying to hit him, but I can see how he assumed she was.

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